Yes. I can accept that this is also "objective," but it fills me with pessimism. I wonder whether Samuel F.B. Morse, if he had invented "SnapChat," would have "messaged: "What hath God wrought?" Curtis

Thanks for directing me to this, which I missed. I had read previously about what you might call "disaster tourism" or "atrocity"-selfies, but this seemed to take the cake because the examples I'd seen of those all involved teenagers. I doubt the Post set it up, but who knows? The fact that the Post costs $1 these days is also a great surprise (and I believe they stick a higher price tag on it outside of the city.) What can I say? I don't even like looking in the mirror, so the concept of selfies is utterly foreign to me. And once, when I was working at a law firm housed on a low floor of One Rockefeller Plaza (I think that was the address; it was the old Eastern Airlines building that now houses the Today show in what used to be the Banco de Ponce facility the FALN blew up), an investment banker from Lazard Freres across the street jumped to his death, hitting a car roof one floor below my office. I had never heard such a noise or seen such a sight. I'm fairly sure I carried a small camera with me in my briefcase that day (you never know what you'll see worth photographing in NYC), but it never occurred to me to capture this moment and share it. Back to Samuel F.B. Morse -- What hath God wrought? Curtis